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35,000 Teachers Strike In Melbourne For The First Walkout In Over A Decade: ‘Going Backwards’

Melbourne’s CBD turned red today as tens of thousands of Victorian public school teachers and support staff walked off the job in the first statewide teacher strike in more than a decade. Police estimated around 35,000 people rallied from Trades Hall to Parliament House, with more than 500 schools across…

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Victoria teachers strike: warning of further action as 35,000 rally and hundreds of schools cancel classes

Union leaders say Tuesday’s protest in Melbourne’s CBD was among state’s ‘biggest’ in years

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Victoria bills itself as the ‘education state’ but thousands of school teachers are set to strike. Here’s what it means

Up to 500 schools will be ‘significantly’ affected by Tuesday’s industrial action. What will classes be like and why are educators striking?

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‘I had a recurring dream I was shot in the head’: school principals say violence is normal in their jobs

Principals’ jobs have always been stressful, involving a constant juggle to meet the needs of students, staff and the community. But research suggests their roles are becoming more difficult and increasingly unsustainable.

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Victoria and South Australian schools to be fully funded after securing landmark federal government agreement

But Queensland and New South Wales still hold out on agreement that will see southern states get a 5% boost in commonwealth public school funding

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Mouldy bathrooms, broken air con and holes in the walls: new data shows Australian public school facilities in rapid decline

Survey of educators finds up to 40% of schools running out of space to meet enrolments, prompting calls for Albanese government to restart infrastructure funding

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University welcomes paid placements and debt relief for Newcastle students

Work placement students will be eligible for $319.50 each week.

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Australia’s poorest schools to be fully funded in ‘landmark’ commonwealth investment in NT

Commonwealth moves closer to fully funding all public schools in deal that will make ‘immediate difference’ in Northern Territory

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Five private schools spent as much on new facilities in one year as 3,000 Australian public schools

Australian Education Union report finds a $31.8bn divide in capital spending over 10 years

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Principals join teachers’ union push for Albanese government to lift public school funding offer

Exclusive: Letter to prime minister demands federal government pay at least a quarter of public school funding cost

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‘Deliberate lie’: education lobby group says ‘landmark’ school agreement falls short of 100% funding

Federal and WA state governments’ public school funding deal dismissed as ‘not good enough’ by Australian Education Union

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Other states rebuff Albanese government’s deal with WA to boost public school funding

States say they will not take up co-funded deal, calling for commonwealth to unilaterally close funding gap

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Labor not ruling out raising income-free area for jobseeker – as it happened

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SA union boss quits amid shoplifting probe

The South Australian state secretary of the Australian Education Union has resigned as police investigate shoplifting allegations.

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Labor’s delay on public schools funding deal a ‘betrayal’ of disadvantaged students, advocates say

Australia’s education minister Jason Clare says government still committed to schools getting 100% ‘fair funding’

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Tasmanian state school teachers hold two-hour strike over pay and conditions

State schools opened an hour and a half late this morning as Tasmanian teachers stopped work. They are calling for better resources and reduced workloads.

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Fears Vic teacher shortage at crisis point

Principals across Victoria fear the teacher shortage could reach crisis point next year as staff leave the profession in droves due to burnout and stress.

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'In-built' relief teacher system key part of ACT government overhaul to address teacher shortages

Canberra's casual teacher system is being overhauled, with schools encouraged to establish their own "in-built" relief staff.

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Private schools received an extra $10bn funding in Coalition ‘special deals’, study finds

Exclusive: Public schools underfunded by at least $6.5bn a year while non-government schools received transitional funding after Gonski 2.0 reforms

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National teacher’s union ‘concerned’ by lack of detail in Labor’s public school funding policy

AEU president backed funding announcement but criticised lack of timeline, while noting Coalition had offered ‘nothing at all’

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Victorian teachers to protest new deal

A fringe group of Victorian teachers say there is growing discontent within the education union about the government's latest pay deal.

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